Steve Zeitlin

Very perceptive piece that fully jives with our experience at our cultural center, City Lore. We are very conscious that board members for small non profits garner little of the prestige and few of the networking benefits of larger organization. It is difficult for us to find board members with deep pockets, and even those with deep pockets…

City Lore is a non profit organization dedicated to fostering NYC — and America — grassroots cultural traditions. Located in a storefront, it is indicative that one of the few times we get an expansive view of the Manhattan skyline is when we are invited to a foundation, often located in a top floor in Midtown. The Foundations literally are not close…

DONALD AND THE ARTS

In October 2016, at the meetings of the American Folklore Society in Miami, I ran into Wolfgang Mieder, a professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont and the world’s leading expert on proverbs. He mentioned to me, as we shook our heads over the forthcoming election, that both…